Daniel Brackett Austin (1800 - 1884)

Born 3 May 1800 in Raymond, Cumberland, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Delight (Preston) Austin — married 28 Feb 1821 in Clarendon, Orleans, New York

Descendants

Died 20 Apr 1884 at age 83 in Ingham, Michigan

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Biography

Daniel was born on May 3, 1800 in Maine to Daniel Austin and Mary Brackett . On February 28, 1821, he married Delight Preston in Clarendon, New York, and they had sixteen children. The oldest was born in New York, but by the mid-1830s, they were farming in the Michigan territory: ^[1] By 1880, Daniel says that he is a retired farmer. He and Delight are living with their son and their son's wife, Jason and Lida.^[2] He died in Dansville, Michigan in 1884.^[3]

His obituary reads:^[3]

"Daniel Bracket Austin died at his residence in Ingham, April 20th. He was born May 3, 1800, in Raymond township, Maine, and moved to N.Y. state with his parents when 10 years of age. He married Miss Delight Preston of Clarendon, N.Y., Feb. 28, 1821, and they have lived a wedded life of 63 years. They moved to Livingston in 1852, where they made a comfortable home from an unbroken wilderness, having born to them 16 children, 11 reaching man and womanhood; three sons gave up their lived in the late war and one son and seven daughters are left to mourn with their aged mother the loss of a kind husband and father. He was formerly a member of the Baptist church. He will long be remembered as a man strictly honorable and a very kind neighbor."

Ingham County Democrat 4-24-1884

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8J-NJX : 22 December 2020), Levi Austin in household of Daniel Austin, Tyrone Township, Livingston, Michigan, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWSZ-PQ2 : 14 August 2017), Daniel B Austin, Ingham, Ingham, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district ED 125, sheet 296D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,582.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKD-G43L : 30 May 2020), Daniel Brackett Austin, 1884; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave,

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